Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2017

Technically speaking, in the United States, a non-profit corporation or association is one which has been exempted from Federal income taxes by meeting the criteria set out Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, most notably religious, educational, and charitable entities like the Salvation Army. distributed cash aid from $137.9

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Don’t miss the small business sales and marketing event of the year! Hopefully we will see you there! FutureStack.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. It’s a great business. It still serves just 60 customers per day.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

billion in total industry sales. So, if I were going to invent something, I’d probably start by creating an affordable jeweler’s workbench, not least because I’d be able to test it, and because I already know all the distribution channels I’d need to hit in order to sell it. In 2011, it accounted for approximately $2.3

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.” He then goes on to calculate a global estimate for the historical taxi and limousine market. The global market would obviously be much larger.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor. Energy Brands was founded in 1996 by J.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. TechCrunch.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. 2) Provide corporate management with near real-time divisional sales reports and budgets that indicated when they deviated from plan. billion in sales in today’s dollars.)

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2014

They are too quick to execute on a sale and fail to secure a guaranteed payment. They don’t state clearly on their website, blog, or Facebook page whether they accept international sales orders. Plan B might be to sell your catfish to another market, say the United Kingdom, or to sell another fish that the Irish like.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

At every one of them I was the person who wrote the proposals, did the technical interviewed on candidates, went on sales calls with the Account Managers to make them look good and got put on troubled projects to help right the ship. 9- Desire to go global. I wanted to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. Thanks to Kristie Jones, Sales Acceleration Group ! #4-Giving I was a new immigrant to the United States, a new mother and living in NYC trying to find my way. 10-It pays to give.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. Distribution. Distribution. What makes a company Blitzscale-able?

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. You want to show that, and investors need to see the scale of a business that have to do with your sales forecast. They’re going to look first at the sales forecast. That hurt her sales forecast for the deli. That’s a sales forecast.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas has 4 of the 11 largest cities in the United States and they are all within driving distance of each other. Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. Texas is part of a global ecosystem No city lives in isolation anymore.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Many VC funds rely on general-purpose CRM and sales funnel solutions like Copper , Pipedrive, Salesforce , Streak , and ZenDesk. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In its most recent quarter, the company processed the exchange of $923 million of sales, which equates to a $3.6B annual GMV.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. For bottom-up exercises, Statista and the United States Census Bureau are frequently used resources.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

of imports and $900 million of exports) a paltry fraction of Israel’s $45 billion bi-lateral trade with the United States or $15 billion with China. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, keen to reassert Japan as a leading global player, and fearful of an ascendant China, is encouraging stronger ties with Israel. Billion ($1.6

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Fast forward 20 years, 3 kids and a roller coaster journey – I look back knowing that having to reinvent myself over and over has taught me skills about emotional and sales agility. We started as a data provider and have grown into a comprehensive retail pricing platform with 100 clients operating globally.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

According to the Direct Marketing Association , Email marketing yields an average 4,300% return on investment for businesses in the United States. And companies using email to nurture leads generate 50% more sales-ready leads at 33% lower cost. Not sure what to send? Here are some free templates to get you started.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The United States Lavender Growers Association is a newly found group set up to help growers. Even if you know nothing about formal market research practices, you can do your own research by getting out to learn more about your customers, distribution channels, and about how to start a farm. This is a global site.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. For the first time in history there are Israeli companies scaling up successfully as global market leaders, and the ecosystem is evolving to support them. That’s the good news.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. real GDP growth for Israel in 2010 in the absence of extraordinary developments, and Fischer has said the economy may grow more than that if the global recovery accelerates. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Being an entrepreneur demands you to learn so many different aspects of businesses – from strategy, sales, marketing, and service – and each is a universe unto their own that entrepreneurs must embrace and master. When I founded the first and only woman-owned RV dealership in the United States, people told me I would never succeed.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You can find out the percentage of ROPO purchases in your country with Google’s Consumer Barometer : Google’s Consumer Barometer for the United States shows that 28% of consumers engage in ROPO behavior. When examining the ROPO effect, traditional brick-and-mortar sales virtually vanish for certain categories.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

In the first 50 years of commerce in the then-new United States, most businesses were general merchants , buying and selling all types of products as exporters, wholesaler, importers, etc. and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

More than a third of the global population has no access to traditional financial services. This will require many partners – credit card companies, banks, microcredit institutions, the United Nations, foundations and community leaders. Even the United States has unbanked households. report concludes.” report concludes.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

These days, the global automobile sector is undergoing massive change. Global automakers and suppliers will adjust their business strategies, create new alliances, and invest in new technologies as a result. These operations learned during the last 18 months they could operate in a remote or distributed environment.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

trillion global industry, but I find most of the content is, well, misleading. Meaningful insight into how sales (and greed) works; some irrelevant sex and violence thrown in to sell tickets. Glengarry Glen Ross – brilliant film which will teach you a lot about sales. Media and entertainment is a $1.9

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